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From: lhv@spocm2.UUCP (Leo Vermeulen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MS-DOS call to read without echo
Message-ID: <1036@spocm2.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 90 17:34:43 GMT
Organization: Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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I have the following problem: I'm trying to write a C-program, using
Microsoft-C 5.1, that reads a character string from the keyboard and
assigns it to an character array. Since this string is supposed to be
a password, I do not want it echoed to the display.

Does anybody have any advice on how to write this bit of code? I am 
accustomed to a Un*x environment, and have not too much experience
coding in C for MS-DOS, so please keep it simple.

Any responses, by e-mail, would be greatly appreciated.

Leo Vermeulen  (UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!sunic!spocm2!lhv)
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